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Ex-Legends Global GC Adam Lister Launches Specialist Sports and Infrastructure Law Firm

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Former Legends Global Asia Pacific Group General Counsel Adam Lister has launched a specialist boutique law firm targeting the fast-growing intersection of sport, entertainment, venues and major infrastructure. The law firm, which opened in April 2026, is focused on advising governments, venue operators, promoters, investors and supply chain partners on high-value transactions, commercial partnerships and […]

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The AI Question BigLaw Doesn’t Want Junior Lawyers Asking

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Generative AI has arrived inside BigLaw carrying a question that no one is quite ready to answer out loud: if the technology can do what junior associates do, what exactly are junior associates for? It is the most uncomfortable conversation in the legal profession right now and it is only getting louder from what we

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SpaceX’s $75 Billion Liftoff – Meet the Lawyers Steering History’s Biggest IPO

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher is steering SpaceX through what has become the largest stock market debut ever, while Davis Polk & Wardwell is guiding the underwriting banks led by Goldman Sachs. Reports from Bloomberg indicate that SpaceX has committed to $25.5 million in legal costs in its amended S-1 — a figure that dwarfs the typical IPO legal spend, though it’s broadly in line with what other mega-deals have paid out.

For context, the largest US IPO of 2025, Medline’s $6.3 billion listing advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, generated $25.2 million in legal fees and expenses, while Cerebras Systems’ $5.5 billion IPO, handled by Latham & Watkins, racked up $4.1 million.

SpaceX’s number sits almost exactly where Medline landed except SpaceX is aiming for a deal roughly twelve times the size.

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Kennedy’s Report 12th Year of Growth As The Firm Moves Towards Its $1 Billion Target

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>> See LawFuel’s Power List Law Firms Kennedys has spent the past decade quietly doing something many law firms talk about but few achieve: building a genuinely global practice. Now the insurance and disputes specialist has smashed through the £450 million revenue barrier, with North America and Asia Pacific driving double-digit growth as the firm

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Legal AI – Kilpatrick Townsend Launches Kilpatrick Labs

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Law360 Pulse covered Kilpatrick’s recent launch of Kilpatrick Labs, an innovation program focused on developing and deploying artificial intelligence tools for the firm’s attorneys, professional staff and clients. “We didn’t want to bolt AI onto the practice — we wanted to rebuild around it,” Charles Gray, partner at Kilpatrick and leader of Kilpatrick Labs, said in a statement

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UK Law Firms Are Finally Coming for the Billable Hour – Sort Of

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The billable hour isn’t dead in the UK, but for the first time it’s looking genuinely ill. A growing slice of work is being priced on fixed or value‑based fees, clients are pushing back on “time spent” as a proxy for value, and AI is quietly blowing up the economics of the sacred six‑minute unit.

And we’ve talked about the BH’s death many times before.

The billable hour’s first real wobble

UK legal spend is still mostly billed hourly, but value‑based and fixed‑fee work has crept up to take a sizeable minority share of the market, and it’s moving in one direction. Clients like predictability, finance teams like budgetable numbers, and nobody likes the month‑end surprise when a “quick” matter turns into a timesheet novella.

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UK Private Wealth Dispute Team Add Leading Lawyer

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Stevens & Bolton expands private wealth disputes team with partner hire Alexa Payet Leading PWD lawyer Alexa Payet’s arrival from Michelmores follows 9 internal promotions reflecting the firm’s continued investment in talent and growth 1 June 2026 – Independent law firm Stevens & Bolton has today announced the appointment of Alexa Payet as a Partner in

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Top 7 UK Divorce Lawyers for Complex Property and Real Estate Portfolios

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Contributed LawFuel article Divorce cases involving complex property and real estate portfolios can be difficult because the assets are often valuable, illiquid, tax-sensitive, and spread across different ownership structures. A couple may own a family home, investment properties, commercial premises, sites with planning potential, holiday homes, farms, offshore property, or assets held through companies and

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Australian Immigration Law Firm Collapse Leaves Clients in Limbo as Migration Practice Folds

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For clients, a law firm is supposed to be the steady hand guiding them through bureaucracy, deadlines and legal complexity. For hundreds of clients of Melbourne-based Gold Migration Lawyers, it has become quite the opposite. The law firm has gone into liquidation, leaving visa applications unresolved, client funds in dispute and many migrants scrambling to

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